Terry Hutson HAPAG LLOYD has dropped plans to introduce its own service linking ports in Northern Europe with West and southern Africa and will slot-charter instead through the already-established Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) service. The South Africa Express (SAX) service will now call at Felixstowe, Hamburg, Antwerp and Le Havre in Europe and Cape Town, Port Elizabeth and Durban in South Africa. Originally Hapag-Lloyd was to introduce four ships of 1200-TEU capacity on a fortnightly frequency, making calls at the above ports plus Lisbon southbound and Dakar northbound. By coming in with MSC instead the company now has weekly fixed day reefer capacity on 4 000-TEU ships each with between 400 and 500 reefer points.
